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Reginald Cholmondeley

January 01, 1970

Reginald Cholmondeley JP DL (20 April 1826 – 10 February 1896) of Condover, Shropshire, was an English landowner, artist and collector. He was a Justice of the Peace and Deputy Lieutenant of Shropshire and held the rank of Major, 1st Batt. 28th Salop Royal Volunteers. The Condover estate passed to him on the death of his brother, Thomas, in 1864.[1][2]

Reginald Cholmondeley
JP DL
Reginald Cholmondeley (1826–1896) by George Richmond
Born(1826-04-20)20 April 1826
Hodnet, Shropshire
Died10 February 1896(1896-02-10) (aged 69)
Condover Hall, Shropshire
Resting placeChurch of St Mary and St Andrew, Condover
Alma materTrinity College, Cambridge
OccupationArtist
Spouse
Alice Mary Egerton
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(m. 1867; died 1868)​
ChildrenAlice Cholmondeley (died 1868)
Parents
  • Charles Cowper Cholmondeley
  • Mary Heber
RelativesMary Cholmondeley (niece)
FamilyCholmondeley

Early life and education edit

 
Arms of Cholmondeley of Vale Royal: Gules, 2 esquires' helmets proper in chief, garnished Or, in base a garb, Or[3]

Cholmondeley was born on 20 April 1826 at Hodnet, the third son of Charles Cowper Cholmondeley (1795–1831) of Chester, rector of Hodnet, Shropshire and Mary Heber (d. 1846).[2] His eldest brother, Thomas, was a Major of the first Administrative Battalion of the Shropshire Rifle Volunteers; another brother, Charles, was a Catholic priest; his youngest brother was the Reverend Richard Hugh, the rector at Hodnet, whose daughter was the novelist Mary Cholmondeley.[1][2]

He attended Trinity College, Cambridge where he matriculated in 1845, obtaining a B.A. in 1849, M.A. in 1856 and was admitted at the Inner Temple on 18 January 1850, but not called.[4] He trained as a painter and sculptor in the 1850s.[5]

 
Monument to Thomas Cholmondeley by George Frederic Watts

In March 1863, following the death of his cousin, Edward William Smythe Owen (1793–1863), Thomas Cholmondeley (1823–1864) inherited Condover Hall and the large estate adjacent, and took the name of Owen as a condition of the inheritance.[6] A year later he married Victoria Alexandrina Cotes, daughter of John Cotes and Lady Louisa Jenkinson, daughter of Charles Jenkinson, later 3rd Earl of Liverpool and a godchild of Queen Victoria.[7] He travelled to Italy for his wedding tour and in Florence he was "seized with a malignant fever" on 10 April and died there on 20 April 1864.[8] His brother, Reginald, who had met him in Florence, carried back his remains to England, and he is buried in Condover churchyard.[8]

In the parish church at Condover there is a marble monument to Thomas Cholmondeley by George Frederic Watts (1817–1904), featuring a kneeling bearded figure of the deceased, wearing boots, a cloak and a soldier's tunic, with his hands clasping a sword, looking out across the choir stalls in front of him, into the chancel.[9][10]

Condover edit

The Condover estate devised to Reginald on the death of his brother, Thomas, in March 1864.[7][11] His country seat, Condover Hall, is generally regarded as "the finest stone manor-house in Shropshire."[12] He also owned a house in London. Originally in single occupation as No. 37 Palace Gate, this large red-brick house at the corner with Canning Place was built in about 1869–70 for Reginald Cholmondeley, to whom Cubitts granted a ninety-nine-year lease from September 1870, at £100 per annum. The architect was Frederick Pepys Cockerell, who also worked for Cholmondeley on the restoration of his country seat, Condover Hall, Shropshire. As well as being a considerable landowner, Cholmondeley was an enthusiastic amateur sculptor of some accomplishment. Many of the elaborate sculptural decorations at Condover Hall are his work.[13]

Marriage edit

 
The Hon. Alice Mary Egerton, The Hon. Mrs Reginald Cholmondeley (d.1868) George Richmond

On 17 October 1867 at Rostherne, Cholmondeley married Alice Mary Egerton (1836–27 November 1868), daughter of William Egerton, 1st Baron Egerton of Tatton and Charlotte Elizabeth Loftus, daughter of John Loftus, 2nd Marquess of Ely.[11] His younger brother, the Reverend Richard Hugh Cholmondeley, officiated at the ceremony.

His new wife was an artist and a poet and the couple were well-suited but the marriage would be short-lived. Alice died in childbirth on 27 November and was buried on 3 December 1868; her infant daughter, Alice, died three weeks after her mother, on 11 December and was buried on 19 December in the parish church at Condover.[1]

In the Church of St Mary and St Andrew, Condover, there is a very affecting monument to Alice Cholmondeley that was sculpted by her husband of one year. It features a recumbent effigy of Alice, with her infant daughter by her side and an empty cradle at her feet.[9][10]

Cholmondeley also sculpted the recumbent effigy of his cousin, Blanche Heber (d. 1870), at St Luke's Church, Hodnet.[14]

In 1871 he published Poems by A.C., a volume of poems by his late wife and dedicated to Robert Browning, and in 1875, Emblems, a volume of her drawings. A presentation copy of the latter was given to the banker, George Rae.[15][16]

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    Monument to Alice Cholmondeley by Reginald Cholmondeley, Church of St Mary and St Andrew, Condover
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    Monument to Alice Cholmondeley (detail)
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    Monument to Alice Cholmondeley (detail)

Landowner and collector edit

 
Sir Theodore Martin (1816–1909), Lawyer and writer, by Reginald Cholmondeley

Cholmondeley was "a man of powerful personality and fine taste", an accomplished artist and talented amateur sculptor as well as an enthusiastic collector of books, manuscripts, paintings and curiosities.[5][17] He had exhibited at the Royal Academy and counted many of London's artists such as G.F. Watts and John Everett Millais (1829–1896) as personal friends.[5]

His circle of friends also included the poet and playwright, Robert Browning (1812–1889), poet, biographer and translator, Sir Theodore Martin (1816–1909), whose portrait he painted, and Lady Martin as well as the American writer, Mark Twain (1835–1910) and his wife, who visited Condover in 1873 and 1879.[18][19][20][21]

On 2 July 1881 (the day that President Garfield was shot) Olivia Clemens received from their friend Reginald Cholmondeley a letter of condolence on the death of her husband in Australia; startling enough, though in reality rather comforting than otherwise, for the reason that the "Mark Twain" who had died in Australia was a very persistent impostor.[22]

When he wrote to Twain to apologise for the mistake the humourist graciously replied:[22]

"Being dead I might be excused from writing letters, but I am not that kind of a corpse. May I never be so dead as to neglect the hail of a friend from a far land."

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    Condover Hall, engraving by E.I. Roberts after J.P. Neale
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    Condover Hall, south-west view
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    Condover Hall, front view

Cholmondeley owned a number of rare books as well as valuable paintings, among them Elizabethan, Old Masters and many more; armour and Birds of Paradise that he purchased from the ornithologist, John Gould.[5][19][20]

Books edit

 
Armorial Bookplate of Reginald Cholmondeley of Condover Hall (1826-1896)

The most important books in his library were:[23]

Manuscripts edit

  • Documents letters and papers written by the lawyer and antiquary, John Smith of North Nibley, Gloucestershire, steward of Henry Berkeley, 7th Baron Berkeley (1534–1613) and MP for Midhurst, Sussex in 1621. There is a well-filled volume of notes made by Smith when he sat in Parliament but they do no contribute anything beyond what is already known.[24]
    • A fine early copy (on a roll of parchment) of the poem called The Stacions of Rome, giving an account of the various churches and shrines at Rome, of the relics there, and the indulgences consequent on visits to them.[24]
  • Collections of the 18th century, by the physician and antiquary, William Cowper (1701–1767), of Overleigh Hall, Chester, for the history and antiquities of Chester and the Isle of Man. Cowper's niece, Dorothy Cowper, married Thomas Cholmondeley (1726–1779) of Vale Royal, bringing with her the Overleigh estate. She was Reginald Cholmondeley's great-grandmother.
    • Sanctus Tewdricus sive Pastor Bonus. A Latin drama, with illuminated title page by Henry Matthew Chamberling[25]

Paintings edit

16th-century and 17th-century portraits of English kings, queens and courtiers, including:

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    Sir Henry Sidney, 1573, by unknown artist[41]
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    Thomas Seymour, Baron Seymour, 16th century, by unknown artist[33][34]
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    Unknown woman, formerly known as Catherine Howard, late 17th-century, after Hans Holbein the Younger[35][36]

English School:[44]

French School:[47]

Dutch School:[48]

Spanish School:[49]

Italian School:[51]

and others.

Venetian School:[54]

By the 1890s Cholmondeley found himself in debt as a result of his extravagance.[5] Over the years he had spent on Condover Hall, its contents and gardens, what was needed for the estate, which became "so neglected and encumbered" that he was planning to sell it when he died in 1896.[55]

Death edit

He died on 10 February 1896 at Condover Hall and was buried on 13 February in the parish church at Condover.[1] The Condover estate passed to his younger brother, the Reverend Richard Hugh Cholmondeley (1828–1910).[20] The Condover estate and the collections of books, paintings, furniture and armour were sold in 1897.[20][56] The Condover estate was purchased in 1897 by Edward Fielden, who later sold it in 1926.[12]

References edit

  1. ^ a b c d Burke 1898, p. 294.
  2. ^ a b c Ormerod & Helsby 1882, pp. 158–159.
  3. ^ Ormerod & Helsby 1882, p. 157.
  4. ^ "Cholmondeley, Reginald". Cambridge Alumni Database. Retrieved 8 June 2023.
  5. ^ a b c d e Bryant 2023, p. 18.
  6. ^ Leach 1891, p. 50.
  7. ^ a b "Miss Victoria A. Cotes (1840-1918)". Paul Frecker Fine Photographs. Vol. 1, p. 152, sitting no. 810. Retrieved 13 September 2023.
  8. ^ a b Thoreau 2013, p. 383, n. 102.
  9. ^ a b Gaydon 1968, p. 55.
  10. ^ a b Newman & Pevsner 2006, p. 230.
  11. ^ a b Ormerod & Helsby 1882, p. 159.
  12. ^ a b Gaydon 1968, p. 39.
  13. ^ Sheppard 1975, p. 38-48.
  14. ^ Newman & Pevsner 2006, p. 301.
  15. ^ Cholmondeley 1871.
  16. ^ Cholmondeley 1875.
  17. ^ Jeckyll & Elgood 1935, pp. 74–75.
  18. ^ Orr 1891, p. 302.
  19. ^ a b Millais 1899, pp. 169-170.
  20. ^ a b c d McAleer 1974, p. 59: The elderly invalid with the "easily triggered temper" was the ornithologist, John Gould (1804–1881), not Reginald Cholmondeley. See Millais 1899, pp. 169-170
  21. ^ Dickins 1987, p. 94.
  22. ^ a b Paine 1935, p. 711.
  23. ^ "The Cholmondeley Library". The Times. London. 2 April 1897. Retrieved 12 June 2023. (subscription required)
  24. ^ a b Horwood 1876, p. 333.
  25. ^ Wright 1989, pp. 236–245.
  26. ^ Christie, Manson & Woods 1897, p. 5, lot 13.
  27. ^ Christie, Manson & Woods 1897, p. 4, lot 7.
  28. ^ Christie, Manson & Woods 1897, p. 10, lot 43.
  29. ^ Christie, Manson & Woods 1897, p. 5, lot 14.
  30. ^ Christie, Manson & Woods 1897, p. 7, lot 27.
  31. ^ Christie, Manson & Woods 1897, p. 7, lot 28.
  32. ^ Christie, Manson & Woods 1897, p. 6, lot 20.
  33. ^ a b Christie, Manson & Woods 1897, p. 4, lot 10 as The Protector Somerset.
  34. ^ a b Strong 1969, pp. 358.
  35. ^ a b Christie, Manson & Woods 1897, p. 4, lot 8.
  36. ^ a b "Unknown woman, formerly known as Catherine Howard, late 17th-century". National Portrait Gallery. London. Retrieved 15 September 2023. This portrait was previously identified as Catherine Howard, fifth consort of Henry VIII. The sitter is now thought to be a member of the Cromwell family, perhaps Elizabeth Seymour (c. 1518–1568), sister of Henry VIII's third wife, Jane Seymour, and wife of Thomas Cromwell's son Gregory.
  37. ^ Christie, Manson & Woods 1897, p. 5, lot 15.
  38. ^ Christie, Manson & Woods 1897, p. 5, lot 16.
  39. ^ Christie, Manson & Woods 1897, p. 3, lot 3.
  40. ^ Christie, Manson & Woods 1897, p. 4, lot 9.
  41. ^ a b Christie, Manson & Woods 1897, p. 4, lot 11.
  42. ^ Strong 1969, pp. 288-289.
  43. ^ Christie, Manson & Woods 1897, p. 5, lot 12.
  44. ^ Christie, Manson & Woods 1897, pp. 3–8.
  45. ^ a b Christie, Manson & Woods 1897, p. 7, lot 30.
  46. ^ a b Christie, Manson & Woods 1897, p. 7, lot 29.
  47. ^ Christie, Manson & Woods 1897, p. 8.
  48. ^ Christie, Manson & Woods 1897, pp. 9–12.
  49. ^ Christie, Manson & Woods 1897, pp. 12–15.
  50. ^ a b Christie, Manson & Woods 1897, p. 13, lot 59.
  51. ^ Christie, Manson & Woods 1897, pp. 15–21.
  52. ^ a b Christie, Manson & Woods 1897, p. 14, lot 66.
  53. ^ a b Anton Maria Vassallo. "The Larder, probably c. 1650/1660". National Gallery of Art. Retrieved 15 September 2023.
  54. ^ Christie, Manson & Woods 1897, p. 22.
  55. ^ Tipping 1918b, p. 536.
  56. ^ Oulton 2009, pp. 83–84.

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reginald, cholmondeley, april, 1826, february, 1896, condover, shropshire, english, landowner, artist, collector, justice, peace, deputy, lieutenant, shropshire, held, rank, major, batt, 28th, salop, royal, volunteers, condover, estate, passed, death, brother,. Reginald Cholmondeley JP DL 20 April 1826 10 February 1896 of Condover Shropshire was an English landowner artist and collector He was a Justice of the Peace and Deputy Lieutenant of Shropshire and held the rank of Major 1st Batt 28th Salop Royal Volunteers The Condover estate passed to him on the death of his brother Thomas in 1864 1 2 Reginald CholmondeleyJP DLReginald Cholmondeley 1826 1896 by George RichmondBorn 1826 04 20 20 April 1826Hodnet ShropshireDied10 February 1896 1896 02 10 aged 69 Condover Hall ShropshireResting placeChurch of St Mary and St Andrew CondoverAlma materTrinity College CambridgeOccupationArtistSpouseAlice Mary Egerton m 1867 died 1868 wbr ChildrenAlice Cholmondeley died 1868 ParentsCharles Cowper CholmondeleyMary HeberRelativesMary Cholmondeley niece FamilyCholmondeley Contents 1 Early life and education 2 Condover 2 1 Marriage 2 2 Landowner and collector 2 2 1 Books 2 2 2 Manuscripts 2 2 3 Paintings 3 Death 4 References 5 Sources 6 External linksEarly life and education edit nbsp Arms of Cholmondeley of Vale Royal Gules 2 esquires helmets proper in chief garnished Or in base a garb Or 3 Cholmondeley was born on 20 April 1826 at Hodnet the third son of Charles Cowper Cholmondeley 1795 1831 of Chester rector of Hodnet Shropshire and Mary Heber d 1846 2 His eldest brother Thomas was a Major of the first Administrative Battalion of the Shropshire Rifle Volunteers another brother Charles was a Catholic priest his youngest brother was the Reverend Richard Hugh the rector at Hodnet whose daughter was the novelist Mary Cholmondeley 1 2 He attended Trinity College Cambridge where he matriculated in 1845 obtaining a B A in 1849 M A in 1856 and was admitted at the Inner Temple on 18 January 1850 but not called 4 He trained as a painter and sculptor in the 1850s 5 nbsp Monument to Thomas Cholmondeley by George Frederic Watts In March 1863 following the death of his cousin Edward William Smythe Owen 1793 1863 Thomas Cholmondeley 1823 1864 inherited Condover Hall and the large estate adjacent and took the name of Owen as a condition of the inheritance 6 A year later he married Victoria Alexandrina Cotes daughter of John Cotes and Lady Louisa Jenkinson daughter of Charles Jenkinson later 3rd Earl of Liverpool and a godchild of Queen Victoria 7 He travelled to Italy for his wedding tour and in Florence he was seized with a malignant fever on 10 April and died there on 20 April 1864 8 His brother Reginald who had met him in Florence carried back his remains to England and he is buried in Condover churchyard 8 In the parish church at Condover there is a marble monument to Thomas Cholmondeley by George Frederic Watts 1817 1904 featuring a kneeling bearded figure of the deceased wearing boots a cloak and a soldier s tunic with his hands clasping a sword looking out across the choir stalls in front of him into the chancel 9 10 Condover editThe Condover estate devised to Reginald on the death of his brother Thomas in March 1864 7 11 His country seat Condover Hall is generally regarded as the finest stone manor house in Shropshire 12 He also owned a house in London Originally in single occupation as No 37 Palace Gate this large red brick house at the corner with Canning Place was built in about 1869 70 for Reginald Cholmondeley to whom Cubitts granted a ninety nine year lease from September 1870 at 100 per annum The architect was Frederick Pepys Cockerell who also worked for Cholmondeley on the restoration of his country seat Condover Hall Shropshire As well as being a considerable landowner Cholmondeley was an enthusiastic amateur sculptor of some accomplishment Many of the elaborate sculptural decorations at Condover Hall are his work 13 Marriage edit nbsp The Hon Alice Mary Egerton The Hon Mrs Reginald Cholmondeley d 1868 George Richmond On 17 October 1867 at Rostherne Cholmondeley married Alice Mary Egerton 1836 27 November 1868 daughter of William Egerton 1st Baron Egerton of Tatton and Charlotte Elizabeth Loftus daughter of John Loftus 2nd Marquess of Ely 11 His younger brother the Reverend Richard Hugh Cholmondeley officiated at the ceremony His new wife was an artist and a poet and the couple were well suited but the marriage would be short lived Alice died in childbirth on 27 November and was buried on 3 December 1868 her infant daughter Alice died three weeks after her mother on 11 December and was buried on 19 December in the parish church at Condover 1 In the Church of St Mary and St Andrew Condover there is a very affecting monument to Alice Cholmondeley that was sculpted by her husband of one year It features a recumbent effigy of Alice with her infant daughter by her side and an empty cradle at her feet 9 10 Cholmondeley also sculpted the recumbent effigy of his cousin Blanche Heber d 1870 at St Luke s Church Hodnet 14 In 1871 he published Poems by A C a volume of poems by his late wife and dedicated to Robert Browning and in 1875 Emblems a volume of her drawings A presentation copy of the latter was given to the banker George Rae 15 16 nbsp Monument to Alice Cholmondeley by Reginald Cholmondeley Church of St Mary and St Andrew Condover nbsp Monument to Alice Cholmondeley detail nbsp Monument to Alice Cholmondeley detail Landowner and collector edit nbsp Sir Theodore Martin 1816 1909 Lawyer and writer by Reginald Cholmondeley Cholmondeley was a man of powerful personality and fine taste an accomplished artist and talented amateur sculptor as well as an enthusiastic collector of books manuscripts paintings and curiosities 5 17 He had exhibited at the Royal Academy and counted many of London s artists such as G F Watts and John Everett Millais 1829 1896 as personal friends 5 His circle of friends also included the poet and playwright Robert Browning 1812 1889 poet biographer and translator Sir Theodore Martin 1816 1909 whose portrait he painted and Lady Martin as well as the American writer Mark Twain 1835 1910 and his wife who visited Condover in 1873 and 1879 18 19 20 21 On 2 July 1881 the day that President Garfield was shot Olivia Clemens received from their friend Reginald Cholmondeley a letter of condolence on the death of her husband in Australia startling enough though in reality rather comforting than otherwise for the reason that the Mark Twain who had died in Australia was a very persistent impostor 22 When he wrote to Twain to apologise for the mistake the humourist graciously replied 22 Being dead I might be excused from writing letters but I am not that kind of a corpse May I never be so dead as to neglect the hail of a friend from a far land nbsp Condover Hall engraving by E I Roberts after J P Neale nbsp Condover Hall south west view nbsp Condover Hall front viewCholmondeley owned a number of rare books as well as valuable paintings among them Elizabethan Old Masters and many more armour and Birds of Paradise that he purchased from the ornithologist John Gould 5 19 20 Books edit nbsp Armorial Bookplate of Reginald Cholmondeley of Condover Hall 1826 1896 The most important books in his library were 23 Nicholas Cox The Gentleman s Recreation 1674 Robert William Eyton The Antiquities of Shropshire 1854 1860 Oliver Goldsmith The Vicar of Wakefield 1766 Jean de la Fontaine Contes et Nouvelles 1762 Longus Les Amours Pastorales de Daphnis et Chloe 1745 George Stanhope Parson s Christian Directory 1716 Dean Swift Gulliver s Travels 1726 Voltaire Œvres 1735 Horace Walpole The Castle of Otranto 1791 Las Quarto Libros de Amadis de Gaula 1533 Richard Hakluyt Principal Navigations Voyages and Discoveries of the English Nation 1589 Carl Schutz Johann Ziegler Vues de la Ville de Vienne et de Vues en Tyrol Styrie 1785 An imperfect copy of the first folio Shakespeare 1623 David Wilkins Concilia Magnae Britanniae et Hiberniae 1737 Manuscripts edit Documents letters and papers written by the lawyer and antiquary John Smith of North Nibley Gloucestershire steward of Henry Berkeley 7th Baron Berkeley 1534 1613 and MP for Midhurst Sussex in 1621 There is a well filled volume of notes made by Smith when he sat in Parliament but they do no contribute anything beyond what is already known 24 A fine early copy on a roll of parchment of the poem called The Stacions of Rome giving an account of the various churches and shrines at Rome of the relics there and the indulgences consequent on visits to them 24 Collections of the 18th century by the physician and antiquary William Cowper 1701 1767 of Overleigh Hall Chester for the history and antiquities of Chester and the Isle of Man Cowper s niece Dorothy Cowper married Thomas Cholmondeley 1726 1779 of Vale Royal bringing with her the Overleigh estate She was Reginald Cholmondeley s great grandmother Sanctus Tewdricus sive Pastor Bonus A Latin drama with illuminated title page by Henry Matthew Chamberling 25 Paintings edit 16th century and 17th century portraits of English kings queens and courtiers including Henry VIII 26 Mary I 27 28 Elizabeth I 29 Charles I 30 Henrietta Maria 31 Jane Seymour 32 Thomas Seymour 1st Baron Seymour of Sudeley Thomas Seymour Baron Seymour 16th century by unknown artist 33 34 Elizabeth Seymour Unknown woman formerly known as Catherine Howard late 17th century after Hans Holbein the Younger 35 36 William Cecil 1st Baron Burghley 37 Richard Foxe Bishop of Winchester 38 Henry Fitzalan 12th Earl of Arundel 39 Henry Pole 1st Baron Montagu 40 Henry Sidney Sir Henry Sidney 1573 by unknown artist 41 42 Francis Walsingham 43 nbsp Sir Henry Sidney 1573 by unknown artist 41 nbsp Thomas Seymour Baron Seymour 16th century by unknown artist 33 34 nbsp Unknown woman formerly known as Catherine Howard late 17th century after Hans Holbein the Younger 35 36 English School 44 Paintings by William Dobson Thomas Lawrence Godfrey Kneller Philip James de Loutherbourg George Stubbs Anthony van Dyck George Frederic Watts A Study with the Peacock s Feathers c 1862 1865 45 Paolo and Francesca 1872 46 and Francesco Zuccarelli French School 47 Paintings by Juliette Peyrol Bonheur and Antoine Watteau Dutch School 48 Paintings by Paul Bril Pieter Casteels Lucas Cranach the Elder Lucas de Heere Jan Gossaert Daniel Mijtens and others Spanish School 49 Paintings by Claudio Coello Bartolome Esteban Murillo Juan Pantoja de la Cruz Antonis Mor Elisabeth de Valois 1560 50 Jusepe de Ribera Diego Velazquez Federico Zuccaro and Francisco de Zurbaran Italian School 51 Paintings by Leandro Bassano Jacopo Bellini Boccaccio Boccaccino Agnolo Bronzino Canaletto Antonio Maria Vassallo The Larder probably c 1650 1660 52 53 and others Venetian School 54 A painting by Paolo Veronese nbsp A Study with the Peacock s Feathers c 1862 1865 George Frederic Watts 45 nbsp Paolo and Francesca 1872 George Frederic Watts 46 nbsp Elisabeth de Valois 1560 by Antonis Mor 50 nbsp The Larder probably c 1650 1660 by Antonio Maria Vassallo 52 53 By the 1890s Cholmondeley found himself in debt as a result of his extravagance 5 Over the years he had spent on Condover Hall its contents and gardens what was needed for the estate which became so neglected and encumbered that he was planning to sell it when he died in 1896 55 Death editHe died on 10 February 1896 at Condover Hall and was buried on 13 February in the parish church at Condover 1 The Condover estate passed to his younger brother the Reverend Richard Hugh Cholmondeley 1828 1910 20 The Condover estate and the collections of books paintings furniture and armour were sold in 1897 20 56 The Condover estate was purchased in 1897 by Edward Fielden who later sold it in 1926 12 References edit a b c d Burke 1898 p 294 a b c Ormerod amp Helsby 1882 pp 158 159 Ormerod amp Helsby 1882 p 157 Cholmondeley Reginald Cambridge Alumni Database Retrieved 8 June 2023 a b c d e Bryant 2023 p 18 Leach 1891 p 50 a b Miss Victoria A Cotes 1840 1918 Paul Frecker Fine Photographs Vol 1 p 152 sitting no 810 Retrieved 13 September 2023 a b Thoreau 2013 p 383 n 102 a b Gaydon 1968 p 55 a b Newman amp Pevsner 2006 p 230 a b Ormerod amp Helsby 1882 p 159 a b Gaydon 1968 p 39 Sheppard 1975 p 38 48 Newman amp Pevsner 2006 p 301 Cholmondeley 1871 Cholmondeley 1875 Jeckyll amp Elgood 1935 pp 74 75 Orr 1891 p 302 a b Millais 1899 pp 169 170 a b c d McAleer 1974 p 59 The elderly invalid with the easily triggered temper was the ornithologist John Gould 1804 1881 not Reginald Cholmondeley See Millais 1899 pp 169 170 Dickins 1987 p 94 a b Paine 1935 p 711 The Cholmondeley Library The Times London 2 April 1897 Retrieved 12 June 2023 subscription required a b Horwood 1876 p 333 Wright 1989 pp 236 245 Christie Manson amp Woods 1897 p 5 lot 13 Christie Manson amp Woods 1897 p 4 lot 7 Christie Manson amp Woods 1897 p 10 lot 43 Christie Manson amp Woods 1897 p 5 lot 14 Christie Manson amp Woods 1897 p 7 lot 27 Christie Manson amp Woods 1897 p 7 lot 28 Christie Manson amp Woods 1897 p 6 lot 20 a b Christie Manson amp Woods 1897 p 4 lot 10 as The Protector Somerset a b Strong 1969 pp 358 a b Christie Manson amp Woods 1897 p 4 lot 8 a b Unknown woman formerly known as Catherine Howard late 17th century National Portrait Gallery London Retrieved 15 September 2023 This portrait was previously identified as Catherine Howard fifth consort of Henry VIII The sitter is now thought to be a member of the Cromwell family perhaps Elizabeth Seymour c 1518 1568 sister of Henry VIII s third wife Jane Seymour and wife of Thomas Cromwell s son Gregory Christie Manson amp Woods 1897 p 5 lot 15 Christie Manson amp Woods 1897 p 5 lot 16 Christie Manson amp Woods 1897 p 3 lot 3 Christie Manson amp Woods 1897 p 4 lot 9 a b Christie Manson amp Woods 1897 p 4 lot 11 Strong 1969 pp 288 289 Christie Manson amp Woods 1897 p 5 lot 12 Christie Manson amp Woods 1897 pp 3 8 a b Christie Manson amp Woods 1897 p 7 lot 30 a b Christie Manson amp Woods 1897 p 7 lot 29 Christie Manson amp Woods 1897 p 8 Christie Manson amp Woods 1897 pp 9 12 Christie Manson amp Woods 1897 pp 12 15 a b Christie Manson amp Woods 1897 p 13 lot 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